Did the flood of Genesis 6-8 actually happen? I believe so. I believe that Genesis 6-8 is an inspired and inerrant account of an actual event in history. Yet it does not reveal what many Christians think. It does not reveal that God is out to punish, kill, and destroy sinful human beings. When read through the lens of Jesus Christ and Him crucified, we see a completely different truth emerge through the flood account of Genesis 6-8.

I was given access to preview the documentary, Is Genesis History? It is a movie which provides positive, evidence-based arguments for the reliability of the Bible as history. It is showing on February 23 in select theaters.

This book on the Grand Canyon is somewhat scientifically technical, but the numerous color images, graphs, and charts help make it more accessible to the average reader. No matter what your views are on the Flood and the formation of the Grand Canyon, I highly recommend this book.

Though Genesis 6:5 and Genesis 8:21 are popular verses used to defend Total Depravity, they in fact offer a choice to humans whether to sin or obey God. Genesis 6–8 is a text which warns the reader that if they form the thoughts of their hearts after evil, only death and destruction will result. If, however, like Noah, they form their thoughts after righteousness and godliness, they will find grace in the eyes of the Lord, and He will guide them, protect them, and even deliver them

Two key texts for the Calvinistic teaching on Total Depravity are Genesis 6:5 and Genesis 8:21. Both verses state that all the intents, thoughts, and imaginations of mankind are only evil continually. But do these texts really teach the Calvinistic idea of Total Depravity?

When bad things happen in this world like the flood, God takes the responsibility for them because He created a world where such evil things are possible. When the flood came, it is not something that God sent, but is something that happened under His rule, or “on His watch.”

Bill Maher says that the story of Noah is about a psychotic mass murderer who gets away with it, and his name is God. Is he right? I happen to agree with Maher that Christians have terrible answers to these sort of moral issues in Scripture, and it is past time we decide to have a better answer than the traditional trite explanations and pat answers of the past.

A friend recently sent me a picture that compares God with Hitler. Is the comparison fair? If the theology of some Christians is correct, then I think the comparison is fair. But I don’t think that this way of portraying God is accurate. God is not like Hitler; God is like Jesus Christ.

The flood is talked about in Job 22:15-18. In this text, we learn something surprising about why the flood came and God’s involvement in it. According to Eliphaz, God’s role in the flood was to give good things to the people who lived prior to the flood (Job 22:18a), but in response, all they wanted was for God to leave them alone. They told God to depart from them!